Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
about
Tag: Nylah Burton
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An assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University, Goffe teaches a course called Afro-Asia: Future and Feminisms, which explores African/Asian art and scholarship from Lahore to Chicago, New York City to Hong Kong, and examines it through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, and resistance.
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Like all social constructs, race is real because we have made it so, and it seems immutable because we wish it to be. It’s no less powerful because humans invented it as a means of control. In fact, that may make it even more powerful. In the name of this deeply silly idea, my people…
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The Passing Trailer Highlights That Race Is A Delusion Refinery29 2021-09-24 Nylah Burton Photo: Courtesy of Netflix. “Race is a delusion,” my friend sighed. We had been discussing passing, the act of someone from one race being accepted or perceived as a member of another, usually a marginalized race to white. After numerous anecdotes about…
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As a Black multiracial woman who doesn’t have a white parent, I’m tired of portrayals of mixedness that mock Blackness, portray multiraciality and interracial marriages as the more “righteous” path, and ignore experiences that don’t fit into POC/white binaries.
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Alice Walker’s Terrible Anti-Semitic Poem Felt Personal — to Her and to Me Intelligencer New York Magazine 2018-12-28 Nylah Burton Photo: Peter Earl McCollough/The New York Times/Redux When I first read Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, I leaned into every word, inhaling Celie’s tragic and triumphant story. In Celie, I felt the presence and pain…